VIDEO: Clacking in the engine compartment

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Keeping repair costs low despite the clacking of the engine

The car has to go into that workshop - a nightmare for everyone who is dependent on their vehicle every day. In addition, there is usually a risk of high repair costs. A clacking noise in the engine compartment causes fear in every car driver: Hopefully that does not mean engine damage. The more open questions you can answer the workshop team in advance, the better. If you can provide specific descriptions, you will reduce the mechanics' working hours. Under certain circumstances, they can make a preliminary diagnosis and check it. If the assumption is correct, this means fewer man hours for the workshop and lower repair costs for you.

Noises in the engine compartment due to low oil level

  • Check yours first engine-Oil level in a cold engine condition and on a level surface. A low oil level can cause the valves to click. If you find that the oil level is too low, add engine oil.
  • Check whether the clacking in the engine compartment still occurs. If the clicking is gone, the problem seems to have been resolved. Please make sure - in the near future - whether the clacking does not return.
  • If the clicking noise persists, your car has to go to the workshop to have the cause clarified.

Create a list of errors: visual test and noise sources of the engine

  • Take your time and write down the anomalies and problems with your car.
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  • Open the bonnet (with the engine idle) and see if you notice anything strange in the engine area. If so, make a few notes about this.
  • Start your car and leave it idling. To better analyze the source of the noise, stand in front of the engine compartment of your car. Listen to see if you can hear the click while idling.
  • Then, while listening to the clicking sound, ask someone to step on the gas. If no one is at hand, step on the gas yourself and leave your car door open so that you can hear the noises louder.
  • Make a note of when the clacking occurs: Can the clacking also be heard or only when accelerating? If it happens all the time, check to see if it varies in volume. Now try to locate the source of the noise. From which area of ​​the engine compartment (gearbox, engine, etc.) can the clicking be heard?

 Second engine and noise analysis

  • If you were able to locate the source of the noise, check whether there is anything unusual to be seen there. Make a note of the source of the noise and any recognizable abnormalities: At what outside temperatures do you hear the noise? At what engine speed does the clacking occur?
  • If it can be heard at different speeds - are there differences in intensity? If the noise occurs when starting up, turning (turning in), engaging the clutch, Brakes and / or driving uphill (where little power is needed), or at full throttle? Does it keep happening? Does the clacking exist when the engine is cold and / or warm?
  • Is the clacking more like a knocking sound? Does the noise resemble a jerk (like a car driving at low revs)?
  • In addition to the clacking, do problems arise: Is the car no longer pulling properly? Are there any bad smells? If so, what do they smell like?

Constant clacking in the engine compartment?

  • In any case, you should go to the workshop as soon as possible - because waiting too long usually makes the problems and the worse costs for the repair go up!
  • Share your full notes with the workshop.
  • If you are unsure whether your car will make it to the nearest workshop, take the help of a towing service as a precaution.
  • Do not tow your vehicle yourself - because private towing is only permitted in an emergency - if your car breaks down and you have to take it to the nearest workshop.
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